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" The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it. "

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" Times have been tough, the economy has been tough. But I want to bring forward a fantastic manifesto for taking the city forwards. "

Boris Johnson

Economy

Forward

Tough

" It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time. But in the end you have a great sense of personal dissatisfaction. "

" My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters. "

" I want to win and I want to be in office. "

" The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two. "

" I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis. "

" I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done. "

" My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg. "

" I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised. "

" I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist. "

" Obama's extraordinary political skills suggest he is more than capable of rising above any personal historical grudges he may have inherited. "

" My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it. "

" I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up control when the Americans won't even sign up to the international convention on the law of the seas, let alone the International Criminal Court. "

" If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more. "

" I've got more in common with a three-toed sloth than I have with Winston Churchill. There is no easy comparison with any modern politician. The more you read about him, the more completely amazed you are about what he did - his energy, his literary fecundity, his ability to work - just unbelievable energy. "

" Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff. "

" My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive. "

Boris Johnson

Chances

Olive

" Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books. "

" If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, you are making it more likely that they will go on to commit more serious crimes. That is why we have so much disorder in London. It is a disgrace. "

" The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics. "

" The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas. "

" It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them. "

" I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton. "

Boris Johnson

Thousands

Good